1) The Despotic Plan of Capital vs. the Cooperation of Freely Associated Labor Marx had begun his analysis of capitalism some three decades before the establishment of the Paris commune in 1871. Labor ...

Police descend on protesters at the Concorde square after a demonstration near the National Assembly in Paris, Thursday, March 16, 2023. [AP Photo/Thomas Padilla] In the famous cemetery of Père ...

On March 18, 1871, workers in Paris rose up to stop an attempt by the French army to steal cannons that had been purchased for the city’s defense in the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war. The French ...

We generally don’t see Paris as a city scarred by war. It is not like London and Berlin, where the drab modern architecture of the urban centers offers silent reminders of past aerial bombardment. It ...

A review of, The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising, by Jasper Bernes; Published by Verso Recent months have seen the Trump Regime launching ...

We can look to the past for visions of how to shape our future. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee’s Carolyn Eichner determines how the Paris Commune can help us gain ...

In 1871, for the first time in history, the working class "stormed heaven" by taking state power and reorganising French society in the interests of the majority. Among the lesser-known leaders of ...

Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins is an addictively good read, weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the ...